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The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1887-01-27
40TH CONGRESS.
Monday Jan. -.

SESATE-The bill appropriating s75,0Oo,-
600 for pensions was passed. The army ap-
preparation bill, with few unimportant
amendments was passed. The resolution
providing for n centennial celebration of the
constitution in April, 1889 was adopted.
Mr.. Sabin reported Minnesota petition for
the passage of the Lowell bankrupt bill.
The nomination of John Il. Norrish OF Hast
ings was sent to the Senate to-day and re-
garding this matter a Washington special
says: sit is understood that the President
recently consulted Senator Sabin in regard
to the appointment, and he spoke in warm
est terms in favor Of Norrish. He did not
recommend him exactly. but he left an
impression on the mind of the President that
he could not do better than select Norrish.
The President pays considerable attention
to statements OF Senator Sabins wishes,
and it was doubtless owing to the warm
words of commendation spoken by the lat
ter that Norrish was successful in securing
the place
HousE-Mr. Matson, of Indiana, from the
committee on invalid pensions, called up
the bill granting the relief to the parents
of honorably discharged soldiers and sail
ors, who are dependent on their own labor
for support. Mr.. Warner, of Ohio, while
xot opposing the bill, criticised it as de-
parturs from principle that pensions were
designed to be compensation for disabili-
ties This bill was rather q pauper bill than
q pension bill.
Mr.. Morrill,, Of Kansas, favored the bill as
being a declaration that no old soldier who
followed the flag should end his days in the
poor house. Mr.. Springer favored the bill
as a conservative measure The bill was
then passed-Yeas, 10, nays. 10. The Mex
lean pension bill granting 81 month to al
surviving officers and enlisted men, was
passed yeas 2i3, nays ), and the bill goes t.
the President. Mr.. Strait presented the st
Paul chamber of Commerce petition for the
passage Of the Lowell bankrupt law. Mr.
White presented a bin to remove the
| charge Of desertion from the record of Thos
McCabe, a soldier in the Minnesota volun
teerS.
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Fires and Casualties.

A boiler in a grain elevator at Newport
News, N. j., exploded, killing and manning
several persons.
The Arlington Hotel at Westminster, b.
c., burned on Sunday, and three guests OF
the hotel burned to death.
Fire in r. Hennessy 4 Co.'S warehouse at
Augusta, Ca, destroyed one compartment
containing 1000 bales of cotton. Loss, $3s,
500. The salvage will be about ~ per cent.
The breaker OF Delaware and Hudson
Coal Company, at Plymouth, Pa, burned
on the 10th, the fire taking from stove
The breaker was filled with costly machin-
cry and | ,OOO tons of coal. Loss <S5,OO0.
One OF the most disastrous prairie fires
that ever occurred in the Indian territory
swept over the prairie about two miles
norlh of Tahleauah on the 2Oth. The wind
was blowing q hurricane and the fire d.
voured everything in its path. Fences,
houses hay and everything OF the kind were
burned for miles around.
On the night Of the 10th schooner was
swept ashore inside the famous seal rocks
opposite the Cliff House, ut San Francisco
The schooner beating against the rocks
caused 100 pounds of giant powder on
board to explode. destroying the Chf'
House. The west side Of the building over
looking the ocean, is completely ruined, and
is only held together by the cross beams
Windows are smashed, doors twisted OH
| their hinges, and the building left in such Il
! shattered condition that it will have to bt
| taken down, what is left Of it, even If II
does not topple over into the ocean,
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1887-01-27
Wednesday, Jan. 10.

SESArE-Mr. Edmunds introduced a bill
on the fisheries question, accompanied by
an incisiye report from the committee on
foreign relations, which was ordered
printed, with a view of immediate con-
sideration. The bill to expediate the COM
pletion Of the Charleston jetties, appropri-
ating $sOO,OOO Immediately available,
passed, also the bill for Mississippi river
bridge ut st. Louis, with two 500 feet spans
and one 800 feet span. Senators Allison'
Plumb and German were appointed con-
ference committee ON the army appropria-
tion bill. An executive session was held.
HousE-Such progress was made on the
interstate commerce bill that vote will be
taken on the GOTH The opposition devel-
0ped is slight and it will he a surprise ii
there are so many as 80 negative votes. Mr.:
Nelson, Mimi, favored the measure. and
said that by its passage one CT the powerful
weapons for extortion and injustice would
be completely sheathed. Mr. Guenther
Wis, said the passage Of the bill would in
spire the people with renewed confidence
in their representatives in congress. Year
after year the railroad magnates, through
agents and lobbyists. had defeated all inter
state commerce legislation. but the day Of
Judgment was about to arrive. The passagt
Of this bill would be the greatest triumph
the public had achieved for many years
Mr.. Weaver, Iowa, opposed the bill Ht
said its theory was to do as little for the
people as possible and to render those sec
tions which related to the rights Of the peo
pie as obscure and unintelligible as human
ingenuity could make them. The people haC
been demanding the Reagan bill and the,
had been fed on ashes. They had asked fol
an egg, and were given a scorpion which
would sting them to death.
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Political and Personal.

The condition of Hon. s. 5. Cox has im-
proved and his recovery is assured.
The Senate confirmed the nomination of
p. II. Leslie, for Governor Of Montana, on
the Goth.
/ Rev. DIR. w. X. Huntington, rector OF
Grace church, New York, has been elected
assistant bishop Of Cincinnati.
The new Governors, Briggs, Of Delaware,
Green, Of New Jersey, Beaver of Pennsyl-
vania, were inaugurated on the 18th.
President Cleveland S reception to his cab
met on the 3Oth, was most brilliant occa-
Ion. Mrs. Lamar was present for the first
time.
Mrs. Garfield, with her daughter Mollie. is
at the Murray Hill hotel, New York City,
where she will remain month or more To
be near her sons.
Congressman Gilfllan was in his seat in
the House ON the 10th, but he looked i'll and
his throat was swathed. The Washington
malaria has made him a victim.
Senator Dawes was reelected by the Mas
sachusetts Legislature in joint session, the
vote on the second ballot resulting as fol
lows: Dawes, ISL; Long, 25; Collins, II; Rob
inson, s.; Russell, l.
j. j. Upchurch, the founder OF the Ancient
Order Of United Workmen, died at Steel
vile, NO., on the 18th, aged sixty eight
| years He founded the first lodge of the
order in Meadville, Pa, in ls'is.
The California legislature voted for thu
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The .Iear OF C0nGusi0n. I"

The year 46 Il. {. was the ..Year of
Confusion. In order to adjust the
year according to the course Of the sun.
and to assign to each month the num-
Der of days it should contain. Julius
Cnsar aaboli>hed the use Of the ..inter-
calations," or days which We're occa-
sionally inserted in the calendar at the.
time. To make everything proceed
regularly from the l>t Of the ensuing
January he inserted in the current year
besides the intcrcalary month Of twenty
three days. which fell into it. two TX
iraortlinary months between November
and December, the one Of thirty-threc
and the other of thir.y-four days. SO
that thisyea consisted Of fifteen months
or AS days. Ii may be here noted that
some historians consider II b. G. to
have been the Year of Confusit n.
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Ex-VIcEsPREsIDENr WHEELER is re-
ported by Il late visitor to his home ut
Malone as busy with his correspondence.
He was cheerful, cordial, and vigorous
in conversation. His health is seriously
impaired, but not SO as to PROSTATE him
or coniine him to his house. That he is
kept in seclusion by his relatives or that
he is con stantly under the influence OF
opium is entirely false and groundless.
Mr.. Wheeler has survived his parents,
brothers, and sisters, and wife, and now
lives alone, childless, and without near
relative in the world, and these bereave-
ments have Of course, saddened him,
but they have not broken him.
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EVENTS OF THE WEEK.
Gen. Haxen's Death.

Gen. VIM. B. Hazen, chief signal officer of
the United States army died unexpectedly
of diabetic coma, at Washington, Sunday
evening, Jan. IL. For several years he had
been victim Of diabetes, but latterly his
condition had improved and he expected to
be permanently cured. Thursday evening
he attended the reception at the White
House and took cold, and was confined to
his bed on Friday, was better Saturday and
expected to be able to go to his Office Mon
day. Saturday evening he was taken worse !;
condition that Of diabetic coma, with blood
poisoning. He grew rapidly worse and died
at 3 o'clock Sunday evening, without q
struggle. His health had been so much bet
ter. that his wife, who was afflicted with a
throat ailment, went to Europe in December
by cable Of her great loss Gen Hazen
was born in Vermont, Sept. q, 1880,
and went with his parents to Garrettsville,
in northern Ohio, iii 1883 In 1851 he was
appointed to West Point, by Gen. John
Crowell, the last Whig Congressman elect
trict. He graduated in 1855, and wasappoint-
ed second lieutenant in the 4th U. S. Infant
ry, and during the next two years was en-
gagged in the Indian campaigns in southern
Oregon, western Texas and New Mexico
In this service he was severely wounded,
01Au uASA nOI ACCONC1 UuLlA lSus WIKI uC 90
appointed captain and made assistant in
structor OF military at WestePoint Upon the
breaking out of the war he was sent to Ohio
to recruit troops, being stationed at Cleve-
land, when he was in contest with Gen. Gar
field for the command Of a regiment, but
the matter was adjusted and both entered
the field with the rank of Colonel OF Volun-
teers. He made good record as brigade
commander, and at the head Of . division
made the brilliant capture of Fort McAllis-
ter, in the Georgia campaign of 1854, and
was at once promoted to Major General.
This capture opened the way for Sherman's
march to the sea- On the 18th Of May 1866,
he was appointed to command the Fifteenth
army corps on account Of long-continued
service OF the highest character and for
special gallantry. He was commissioned
colonel Of the Thirteenth regular infantry,
and afterward of the Sixth, and during the
Russo Turkish war in 1867. he was United
States attache at Vienna. On Dec. Is, 1880,
he was appointed chief signal officer, with
the rank Of brigadier general, and that posi-
tion he continued to hold until his death.
His wife, the daughter Of Hon. Washington
Mclean, of Cincinnati, and one child sur
vive him.
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Il saw a new trick out in Iowa the
other day." said a travelling man. Il
was stopping at a little station on the
Northwestern, and the hotel was close
to the railroad track. The through
passenger trains don't stop there. In
the party sitting outside after dinner
was man who had . fine gold watch
with case Of extraordinary weight.
He said it was the heaviest watchcase
made. and the strongest.
There is a funny thing about this
watch Of mine, he said: 1t is 50 strong
that can put it on the railroad track
and let 4 train run over it and will not
be damaged in the least
/. Right on the rail?' queried one Of
the party.
..Yes, I'll place it right on the top Of
the rails. where the wheels run. and il
won't be hurt particle
..Bet you the cigars you dassent do it.
The proposition was promptly ac-
cepted. and the whole crowd prese..t
included in the payment Of the wager,
no matter who lost. In few minutes
train was seen approaching, when
the owner OF the watch went out to the
track, put his time-piece on the rail,
and then walked back to the hotel porch
and resumed his chair as cool as a
cucumber. They stood with open
mouths, and thinking what a shame il
was that an Internal fool should put
such fine watch on the rails to be
smashed into smithcreens.
When the locomotive struck the spo,
where the watch had teen placed ths
crowd groaned and fancicd they could
see bits Of gold flying along with the
dust. But the owner Of the watch sa,
quietly smoking his cigar. and, as soor
rs the long train had passed. he walket
out, reached down. and picked hi.
watch up from the side Of the rail. a.
perfect rs If it had been in his pocke
all the time.
You see, he said. rs we all lightet
fresh cigars at the other fellows ex
pense. there is no danger in this tricl
providing you place your watch neal
the edge Of the rail, where the wheel
have worn the face smooth. and SO tha
the slightest disturbance will cause it L
slide off inside the rail. The watch cas-,
is oval, and that leaves are opening FOL
the air to get under. If the jar d
the rail did not cause the watcl
to fall 0ff the pressure Of tn
air from the approaching train snrel.
would, | have performed that littl,
trick hundreds Of times and never me
with an accident. One day frcsl
travelling man from st. Louis saw M
do it. and he Mt once declared that wa
nothing-anybody could 40 that. 5,
he went out in front of another trail
and put his watch upon the rail. Afte
the train had passed he found hi
watch about forty rods up tn
track. 1t was about as bic as
saucer and as thin rs 4 piece Of ligh
cardboard. He had made the fatal mis-
take Of putting the watch near the en-
Of rail and SO nicely balanced upo
the top Of the raj that it didn't fal
of. This trick is just likeany other
YOU want to know how to do it.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1887-01-27
FOREIGN AFFAIRS.
Foreign Budget.


The conspiracy bill is said to have been
finally approved by the British cabinet.
Germany is treating with the Vatican for
twenty-year concordat. The existing
concortlat applies only to Prussia.
The Italian government has bought the
National line steamer America for S657, 500,
and will convert it into an armed cruiser.
Three thousand Albanians attacked
military depot near Milrovitz. The Turkish
minister Of war has ordered troops to the
scene.
The French chamber Of deputies Fri
day rejected two motions for the abolition
OF the Office of chaplain in the public hos
pitals.
There is but one opinion in England as to
the defeat of the Army bill in the German
Reichstag, and that is that it increasee the
probabilities of war. All the reports from
France are to the effect that the dissolution
OF the Reichstag has had the result OF giving
the war party at Paris fresh encouragement.
There will be no Wagner festival at
Bayreuth this year, but for the next five
years Tristan and Isolde" and s:Parsifal
will be performed alternate years.
The French steamer Gironde, which has
arrived at Pauillac, France, from Buenos
Ayres, has two cases of cholera on board.
and has been placed in quarantine.
Lord Colin Campbell has abandoned his
intention to move for q new trial OF his di-
vorce suit against his wife and will not ap
ply to the court to fix q date for a hearing.
Robert Browning's new book will he
issued the 18th Of this month, and it is said
to have the strange title of .Parleyings
with Certain People Of Importance in Their
Day
From now until the election OF the new
Reichstag Germany will be agitated from
one end Of the country to the other by the
cry of war. The hopes of securing Reich
| stag favorable to the Government prOpo-
sails are based chiefly on this cri de guerre.
Mr.. Gladstone cOurageously persists III
| saying that the Irish question must be set
| tied before all others, and the gradual re-
| yival of his popularity is based on this one
condition, In almost every letter dispatch
ed from Hawarden, either private or other
wise, he insists that the Irish question is Of
supreme moment
Emperor William has made the follow
ing comment on the rejection:of the army bill
by the Reichstag: The rejection of this
measure SO important for the preservation
Of peace to Germany has deeply saddened
me-after SO many happy days have been
vouchsafed to me in my old age, especially
| after completing 50 years Of service in the
army, the rejection of the bill impressed me
deeply and most painfully. 1t is impossible
from Il military point of view to regard the
three years term proposed by the majority
of the reichstag as sufficient. hope the bill
will be passed in the near future.''
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1887-01-27

THE Ell PAsCo fTEx.) TIMES says:
1t is no use for northern papers to say
FL Pasco is the toughest place in Texas.
There is Cotulla. for instance. There
has been Il regular vendetta there late
" and several killings, and since the
last killing the feeling is as high as
ever, and the best citizens are very un-
easy. People attended church last
Sunday armed in ease ofemergency. and
the congregation was the most solemn
that has assembled for many day.
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A lad in Jersey City, while watching the
coal-strikers and the Pinkerton men. W $
shot dead by one OF the latter for throwing
snowballs at the officers
Ex-County Treasurer Hollingsworth Of
Vincennes, Ind, who-.embezzled $50 900, and
fed to Canada, has tired of his fugitive
life. and has returned and given himself
up.
George Hazard. a colored man who broke
into Catholic convent at Greenfield, Mich
igan, and compelled nun to leap through
q window, has been sentenced to twenty
years in the penitentiary.
Evan Fabes, negro who was pardoned
from the Mississippi penitentiary because
of inhuman treatment by the lessee. sued
Captain John p. Withers for damages. and
was awarded $l,OOO by jury comprising
eleven white men.
At Clifton, fishing station on the
Columbia river near Astoria, Oregon,
Emma Frischkorn, aged fifteen, shot and
killed Peter Gunderson. a fisherman.
Gunderson and companion named Oodby
rented rooms in Frischkorn's house. He
wanted to marry Emma, but her mother
objected. This angered GundersOn, who,
with OOdby's assistance. drove Frlschkorn
and family out OF the house. The next
night they returned. Gunderson started
| for FrischkOrn with knife, when Emma
| seized double-barreled shot gun and shot
Gunderson dead.
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Tuesday, Jan. lS.

SESATE-Tuesday was dull day, the
most interesting feature being a:notice from
Mr. Edmunds that he would ON Wednesday
call up important executive business Mica
raugua Canal) and made the announce
ment SO that Senators might be present.
HcusE-Beyond long debate over the
resolution, which was at an end adopted,
inyestige e the Pacific railroads, nothing was
done. The committee on invalid pensions
met and by the vote seven Democrats 70
five Republicans refused to approve the
Senate bill granting pensions TO Mrs:
Logan and Mrs. Blair. The alleged ground
for this conclusion is that it establishes an
Objectionable precedent, though the
precedent has been four times established
in the deaths, Admiral Farragut, Generals
Thomas, Grant and Hancock.
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Domestic News.

Armour, of Chicago, has refusedito stand
the exactions Of the bricklayer's union, and
has hired others in their places.
A st. Louis Jew in Havana was mistaken
for another Jew who had stolen tobacco.
He was held in Jail for 10 or IL days until
the mistake was discovered.
The Dominion parliament has been dis
solved and new elections ordered. The
nominations will take place on the 18th Of
February, and the polling on the End.
Prof. Edward Olney, the eminent mathe-
matician, was found dead in his bed Mon
day morning at Ann Arbor, Mich, death
having resulted from heart disease.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1887-01-27

United States senator on the 18th. In the
Senate George Hearst DEM received %:
Henry Nrooman Rep IL. In the assembly
the vote was: Hearst ss: Vrooman ~.
Hon 8. =. Cox is quite i'll, on the 10Th hav-
with indications of pneumonia. Mr.. Cox
says he contracted severe cold shortly
after the holidays by sleeping in his room ut
the hotel before it had been properly heated
and that his present illness Is the result.
Mrs. voorhees,. wife Of senator d. w.
Voorhees, Of Indiana died at Washington. at
p. m, on the 2lst OF acute peritontis. She
was taken sick on Monday last with a con-
gestive chill followed by inflammation Of the
bowels which terminated fatally. The re-
mains were taken to Terra Haute and the
funeral services held there on Sunday.
Congressman Nelson has introduced bill
to transfer the title of the United States
in the Fort Ripley reservation OF l72 acres
to the State of Minnesota for tue Soldiers
Home. He says it will not conflict with Mr.
Gillfillan's bill for the transfer OF portion
OF the Fort Smelling property for the same
purpose as the state has to decide on the 10
cation.
Frank Hiscock, who has been in the low
er house of Congress for ten years was
chosen for United States Senator by the
Republican caucus of the New York legis-
lature on the 18th. Senator Warner Miller
and Levi +. Morton were the other can
didates and Hiscock, who was third in the
race, was nominated by the Morton men,
who went over in a body to defeat Miller.
Mrs. Abbey Kelly Foster died at her home
at Worcester. Mass, Jan. IA, at the age of
-. Forty. years ago, as Abbey Kelly, she
was leader in the anti slavery cause, with
Vim. Lloyd Garrison Parker Pillsbury,
Theodore Parker and Stephen S. Eoster, the
latter Becoming her husband. She was an
eloquent speaker and did much for the
cause. She is survived by one daugter, a
teacher in the Boston public schools.
Prof. +. J.. Youmans died at New York
City. on the 18th. He was born in New
York state in 1921, was apr ointed to the
chair OF chemistry ut Antioch Co lege in
1876 and in 1872 established the Scientific
Monthly. He stood ut the head of citizens
OF the United States as an authority upon
scientific subjects, and his works upon
chemistry have been the standard text
books OF the schools, for years.
The Nebraska legislature has elected A.
s. Paddock, of Beatrice, to succeed Senator
Van Wyck. in the United States Senate.
Paddock immigrated from New York to Ne
braska 3O years ago, and at first united
farming with the editorship of the Omaha
Republican. He was appointed Secretary
Of the Territory in 1851. This is the fourth
ate, having been beaten by Gen. Thayer in
1861. Senator Upton in 1873. and Van Wyck
in 1881. He is only 81 years of age and
wealthy.
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WISCONSIN,.

The plurality Of Haugen for congress in
the Sth district is announced as IT,
NJ H. Perkins, one Of the leading business
men Of Hudson, and member Of the village
Council, dropped dead Thursday morning Of
heart-disease, aged 81 years.
Paul Grottkau, the socialistic leader after
serving term Of thirty days in the house oi
correction at Milwaukee, was arrested and
jailed on federal warrant for perjury.
The Loss by the fire Wednesday night in
La Hects q Co.'S fur store in Milwaukee ii
believed TO be Of incendiary origin. The
stock in the store 10 insured for E15,OOO, hut
is said to he worth less than $4,000.